The Sun. — London, England, 1864-11-09 00:00:00

TICE CYCLONE AT CALCUTTA. CALCUTTA, Oct. 4. The Onangondy took the ground in Garden Reach on the 12th of September,but got off and proceeded. The. City of Ningpo touched the ground on the 25th of September at the Lower Channel, while in tow, but came off in half an hour and proceeded. The Jehanghier took the ground while in tow of a steamer off Hull Point, but proceeded. The Calumet and the Shah Alum have lost an anchor. The Cli mandee, from Reunion, which arrived here the 16th of August, has been sold for 5,000 rupees, and resold for 2,500 rupees. The Lord Clyde, going down in tow of a steamer, touched the ground on Gaspar Bar on thel29th of September. Oct. 6. The following is a report of the damage done by the cyclone yesterday, and of the present position of the shipping in the Hooghly as far as ascertained: — Ships totally lost—The Loochoo Azemia, master drowned —the Ledy Franklin, nearly all hands drowned—the Lady Rawlinson, nearly all hands drowned —the Vespasian, the Ville de St. Denis, and the Govindpore. The Sarah and Emma was at Garden Reach with pilot ca board ; no tidings of her. The Victoria Bridge, high and dry on river bank at Cossipore ; considerable damage to hull, spars, and rigging, and loss of anchors. The Astronomer totally dismasted, but the hull, excepting bulwarks, apparently all right. The Hippolyta apparently sustained little or no damage. The Collingwood ashore on the left bank of the river; spars nearly all gone, but other• wise not much damaged. The City of Paris, fore. • mast, chain plate, two anchors, and 180 fathoms of chain carried away, windlass cut up, and lower part of hull slightly damaged ; will have to dis charge on shore at Cossipore. The Chevy Chase in dock apparently all right. The Simla on shore at C o ssipore, lost three royal-masts, flying jibboom, spankerboom, and gaff, upper works badly damaged, hull apparently little damaged. The Mooresfort, aground at Goosery ; mainmast and foremast had gone, must be lightened. The Hanover, on the Goosery Sands, in a very bad state. The Seahorse, on Seebpore Sands, very much damaged. The Ann Rogden, on shore at Cossipore, 9 feet' of water in her hold. The Latona on shore on the right bank of the river, stern knocked oat. The Winchester on shore at Cossipore, probably not in imwediate danger. The Hampden on shore above the Mint; lower yards, maintopmast, and foretopgallant masts carried away ; hull above water damaged, but ship apparently not strained, on soft ground, and making no water. The Manilla, off' the Burning Ghat, will come off on the flood ; lost three topmasts, and top• gallant mast cut down to water's edge, and other damage ; hull damaged above water, but ship quite tight and' not strained. The Alaric Thickstone, on shore astern, but afloat forward at low water, sus• tamed some damage, but apparently not strained — salt laden. The Ann (country ship) in dock, had all her masts blown out. The Tinto, in dock, fallen over, may be recovered. The Southampton almost a wreck. The Midas badly damaged. The Bolton Abe bey, damage uncertain, but probably considerable. The Clytemnestra, damage uncertain, but probably considerable. The Gustave and Louis high and dry at Princep'e Ghat, The Romania high and dry at Princep's Ghat, has cot sustained much damage. The Harry Warren on shore, apparently not very much damaged. The Speedy on shore, probably badly damaged. The Jane Louis, capsized in dock, will probably be recovered. The Ville de St. Pierre and the Western Star on the bank, in a very dan gerous position. The Thunder on shore, but will be easily repaired. The Mauritius on shore on the right bank of the river, in a dangerous position. The Newcastle on shore at Seebpore, without material damage. The Thalatta on the bank at Cossipore, doubtful whether she can be got off. The Saoloo has sustained only trifling damage. The King Arthur on shore at Cossipore. The Mowing further information has been received :—The Anne Rogden, hogged, and shows great straining on the port side. The Manilla is afloat, the St John Lawrence (699 tons) does not seem vitally injured, the Calinie is apparently not very severely damaged, the Sir Samsatjee Family is in a very dangerous position, the Sesostris is on shore near Cossipore, back broken ; the Tartar, bow stove in, apparently very badly damaged; the Mon. mouthehire, stern and both sides stove in ; the Aste roid on shore at Cossipore, blown high and dry the Southern Cross ashore, high and dry ; the Wide Awake was on shore on the Howrah side, has got cif, but seems badly dantaged. The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamers Nemesis, Bengal, and Nubia all on shore on College Sand, two of them dhmasted. Of the Government river steamers seve. ral have sustained serious damage. The City of Lahore, (Liven on shore near Baboo Ghat, lost her bowsprit, foretopmast, maintop, &e., and must lighten. Toe Leonide, salt laden, on shore, does not make any water, and will probably get off and jettison some salt; The Medusa, on shore at the Mint, is not much damaged. The Riever is all right at her moorings. The Lady Palmerston is on shore, considerably damaged. The Macduff is driven a considerable distance np the river, but has sustained very little damage. The -Tornado is only slightly damaged. The Iron Duke is on shore, but likely to be got off. The Solway, the Great Tasmania, the Red Rose, and the Waterloo are all four badly damaged. The War Eagle held on to her moorings, and is very little injured. The Annette Lyle, salt leden, will probably have to jettison part of her cargo. The Carribean, with a full cargo of seeds, for Hull, has gone ashore at Leelpole, mast and anchors all gone, but making no water. The Sir John Lawrence, with a general cargo, for London, is ashore above Cossipore, mast and anchors gone, and making water. The Western Empire, in ballast, has lost bowsprit, foremast, mainmast, and mizen topmast. The_Aladdin, partially loaded for Boras bay, has gone ashore below the RailwayePier at Armenian Ghat; has lost all her anchors and some spars. The Pride of Canada is on Goosery Sand making water ; has lost spars and anchors ; fully • laden with rice, &c., for Bombay. The French Empire has been driven across to Howra, but is in deep water, among other ships, and has lost two anchors, besides yards and spars, &c. The Lord Lyndhurst, no casualty. The Camperdown, with salt, has lost foretopmast, anchors, deo,, and has been damaged. The White Jacket is in dock, and has sustained no damage. The Queen of the Age is aground on the left back of the river; ship seriously irjured,but cargo apparently not damaged. The Hindustan, at Cossipore, dismasted and jammed with several other ships. The Mahratta no tidings; it is feared that she is lost. The Beaumaris Castle slightly damaged ; the West little injured ; the Genii lost bowsprit, foremast, Sze., and severely chafed. The Southern Belle ashore in a bad posi tion, much damage to the rigging, &a., on one side. The Salsette on shore, lest some spars and damaged her upper works. The Lincolnshire lost bowsprit and other spars and sustained considerable damage to her stern. The 'falavre afloat off Bangliszer, topmast, &de gone, making one inch of water per hour. The Merrie England aground; back broken. The Nimrod aground at Cosssipore; side stove in. The Governor-General afloat, and not supposed to be seriously injured. The Robert Lee afloat at her moorings ; no serious damage perceptible. The B iron Renfre w , un known ; she was proceeding down ' condition the river under steam, The Mi:zapore, bulwarks carried off to the upper part of the fore-rigging, waterway a eam to s p g g o a n i. gone on both sides, topmast carried away, three 1 art roasts and yards, tn i zen topsail yard, jib and spanker booms, and anchors and chain ; high and d r y, 2flo bales cotton more or less damaged. The B nfellyen, high and::dry, bulwa r k s carr i e d away s from forecastle to mizen rigging on both sides, upper bull plates on-port side smashed ; three boats, two anchors end chains, two 'hawse pipes, and cathead rigging, boweprit : jibboorn, three topmasts and top. gatiantmasts, and fore, main, and wizen tops gone, and a complete suit of wily and gear totally lost. Tho Udine, no damage, The Metis, on shore oppo. site Baboo Ghat. The John Liddgett, in the stream, sustained no damage. The Sir John Lawrence, 690 tons, in the stream, sustained considerable injury from collision with other vessels. Tho Agra, driven ashore on the right bank cf the river, has sustained extensive damage from other vessels having fouled her. Tee Glen roy on shore at Cossipore; damage Oat. 8. The Aipee, bound for Galle, which put back yes terday, has been badly damaged ; her cargo will be forwarded by another. The Southampton and the Lady Franklin, which were totally lost, were bound for Bombay. The Vespasian, which was totally wrecked, was loading for London ; 10 lives lost. The Tartar ashore and leaky. The Singapore, the Ville St. Denis, and the Ally, all lost, were bound for the Mauritius, with coolies. The Iron Duke, the Solway, and the War Eagle are ashore, badly damaged. Another Account.—The Nadir escaped uninjured ; the Carobel and the Nagasaki. both loading for Bombay, are also reported quite safe. Oct. 10. — The Harry Warren is afloat and light, with lots of copper ; the Baron Renfrew and the Thames, both bound for Calcutta, are reported ashore, bat likely to come off; the Talja is seriously damaged ; the Forbes sunk off Seebpore by two ships breaking from their moorings and rolling over her. BOMBAY, Oat. 8. The Dhollera all right. The Christina and the Carobee rcquire repairs. The Looloo and Harry Warren slightly damaged. The Thalatta probably a total loss: TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—l am instructed by the directors to transmit to you a copy of the letter they received this morn ing from the Acting Superintendent of the Com• pany at Calcutta, containing a report of the terrific hurricane of the sth ult., and to state that this let ter is at your service for publication, if considered of sufficlent public interest. —I am, Sir, your obedi ent servant, C. W. HOWELL, Secretary. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Come pany,Offices,l22,Leadenhall-street,E.C.,Nov.B. i‘ Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Calcutta, Oct. 6. " Gentlemen,—You will, no doubt, have received by telegram a few lines, which will have prepared you to hear of the terrible disaster which has over taken us. " A. hurricane burst upon ill yesterday at 10 a.m.. beginning with rain and squalls from E. to E.S.E , and finishing a little to W. of S. From noon until 4.30 p.m.. it raged with appalling violence. The whole shipping of the port, from Kidderpore-bridge upwards, with the exception of some few sunk and stranded on this side, have been driven from their moorings over to the Howrah side of the river,where they are huddled together, with masts, yards, and hulls, locked and crossed in the most indescribable confusion, and in all this fleet not one single topgal• lent or royal mast or yard had been struck. " When it came on to blow no time was lost in securing our ships by carrying extra fastenings to the shore; but the violence of the wind rendered this and any other precautionary measures unavail ing. "I cannot pretend to do more now than give you an outline of what occurred; the reports from the ships' commanders, and,where necessary, from heads of departments, will in due time furnish a full nar. native of all that took place. " Yesterday evening at sunset the Bengal was on shore opposite Mr Wooley's house ; I am enabled to state that she is nicely bedded in soft mud and per. fectly upright, shows no symptoms whatever of having strained, has lost topgallant masts only, and I have great hopes of getting her off next spring tides, which will be very high ones. "Bath the Nubia and Nemesis at sunset were safe. The former had her main and mizen masts blown clean out of her, and had lost boats, but was other wise uninjured in hull or engines. The Nemesis had been in collision with a large coal ship, but had escaped with loss of topgallant masts and bowsprit and some of her boats. This morning, however, the Hindostan,whose stern moorings had given way, got foul of her own landing stage, and hung across a very strong ebb tide, laying over a great deal and taking in water through her old top sides. About an hour after I had ordered everything that could be, got out of her to be landed she settled down very deep in the water, as if sinking, and, in this state parted from her bow chain, and rolled down on to the Nemesis, whom she tore away from her anchors, and drove on to the Nubia, carrying her also down the river. A very little way beyond the sheers, the Hindostan rolled over and went down, and the Nubia speedily got clear, but the Nemesis fouled a sailing ship, and hung on shore by the stern and to the bows of the sailing ship off the King of On Palace for about two hours, but has been extricated, and is now coming up under her own steam with the Nubia in company. I shall add an account of the damage to both ships if received in time for tooday's post. Two things, however, are certain— the Nubia cannot be sent to Bombay for some time to come, and the Nemesis can only with the greatest difficulty be got ready to take the mails of the 9th inst., starting three or fcur days later than the usual time. " Oa shore the damage kflicted has been incredi ble. In the Officers' Club, No. 5 Compound, scarcely a tree is standing; even the noble avenue of maho• ;any trees is ail uprooted. The boatbuilding shed has stood, but the roof of the coal shed next to that has been torn off and rolled up, the iron posts broken in pieces and uprooted. The three large coal sheds, nearly full, have stood very well, ex: cept at the south end, where repairs will be require 3 ; but of the small experimental shed near the fl +g staff, not a vestige remains. The workshops and ad j acen t buildings are comparatively uninjured. The adjoining compounds, Nos. 1,3, and 4, are fear ful scenes of desolation and ruin ; not a tree is left standing, and the houses have very much suffered none of their occupants will have an idea of comfor. for some time to come. In No. 3 Compound, the road to the stores and sheers whirf will In for l some days impassable from large fallen timbe% All the river moorings will have to ba laid down afresh, and the road along the bank will have to Le re- not known. The Alumbagh has not lost a spar. The Ceylon lost fore and main masts, and sustained other damage. The Knight Commander sustained some trifling damage from collision with other yes. sole. The Romany on shore high and dry. The Hannibal on shore at Sappore, tot illy dismasted, but hull in good condition. The Esmeralda on shore at Cossipore. The Vanita has her forefoot on the wreck of the Azemia ; is in a dangerous position. The Calumet has sustained some injuries but is safe in deep water. The Broughton Hall, for Bombay, has been driven ashore near the engine-house. The How reside has lost nearly all her masts, and hull injured. The Aphrodite, in Garden Reach moorings, and the Goldfinder, for Bombay, in Salt Golsh mooring, are both said to have escaped uninjured. The Inkerman in dock, safe. The Cheshire, for Bombay, was driven ashore south of Howrah terminus, otherwise unhurt. She is afloat aft, and it is hoped may be got off with out much difficulty. The Tarragon, the St. Philbert, the Nomade, the Anne de Bretagne, the Admiral Casey, the Celinie, and the Alphonse and Nellie, all seven ashore, but no particulars received of damage or whether any is sustained. The Sir Jamsetjee Family aground at Cossipore, with loss of fore and main masts, mizentop, figare•head, and cntwater. The Panjaub has lost maintopmast and topgallant mast, topgallant yards, all her boats but one, and anchor and chain; ship badly strained, and a hole in her side. The Madras totally dismasted, all her boats gone, and lost anchor and chains. The Maul mein totally dismasted, funnel gone, bulwark stove in, and anchor gone. The following ships, it is believed, have escaped without serious damage :—The Ally, the Akbar Shah, the Royal Oak, the Alabama, the William Fairburn, the Sultany, the Armenian, the River Clyde, the Zenobia, the India, the Nagasaki, the Renown. 'fhe tug steamers Resolute, Reliance, Bulldog, Rattler, and Electric not injured ; the Victoria and the Columbus slightly damaged; the Union appears badly damaged ; the Banshee, the Linnet, the Fire Queen, the Satellite gone down; the Interloper severely injured, but can probably be repaired ; the Alligator and the Pirate both very severely damaged. The Sydney's starboard quar ter was very much damaged ; a large hole in her, making a little water. The Orissa has bulwarks carried away, anchors, chains, and rail gone. The Princess Royal has drifted up to Cossipore, and is jammed with other ships ; not much injured as yet. The Royal Alexander is on shore at Garden Reach, not much damaged, and is likely to get off. made. Not a boat of the Harbourmaster or Mas ter Attendant's department has escaped, and so many native boats have been destroyed that there is great difficulty in communicating with ships. The roads all round us are blocked with trees and ruins of every description. No natives can be got to work; they are absent digging among the ruins of their houses. The river is now, and will be for some few tides, dangerous from sunken and floating wrecks; but I think we shall be able to work to-morrow. The staff and super• numeraries who lived on board the Hindostan have been made as comfortable as circumstances will permit. " We have had nothing like this hurricane since 1832 ; but in fearful results—viz., destruction of houses, stores, and shipping—nothing has equalled it. Nearly 300 ships are reported wrecked, on shore, or irreparably damaged. " Through God's mercy no lives have been lost, and only one serious accident has occurred among us, namely—a steward blown down the hatchway of the Hindostan.—l am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, S. H. DE SALIS. "The Managing Directors, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London." Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, Nov. 3.—Her Majesty's despatch vessel Psyche, Lieut.-Commander Robert Sterne, left this port on Monday morning last for Mara seilles to embark his Excellency Sir Henry Storks, K.C.8. ; the new Governor of Malta, who is ex pected to leave England on the 10th inst. to assume the Governorship of the island. Sir Gaspard Le Merchant, with his family, left this evening in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poonah for Southampton, and Major-Gen. Ridley has as sumed thecommand pro tem. Captain Vessey, 22d Regiment, proceeded as passenger in the Yysche for Marseilles. The paddlewheel frigate Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, left yesterday for the Pit was with stores for the Liffey, 35, Capt. George Parker. She will thence proceed to Smyrna, Cans dia, and Corfu. Capt, Bowden, aide-de-camp to Major-Gen. Ridley, and Capt. Bland, Royal Engle neers, went in the Magicienne. The Tyrian, 2, gunboat, Lieut. T. P. Murray, left on the 29th ult. for Gerbi, in the Regency of Tunis, for the protece tion of British interests there, in consequence of an attack on the island by a numerous band of lawless Arabs from the mainland, in which several lives were lost. The Tyrian will relieve the Racer, 11, which has been despatched to Gerbi, on intelligence reaching Tunis of the occurrence. In consequence of news having been received of the English merchant schooner Mermaid having been sunk by a Spanish battery at Ceuta, her Majesty's frigate Orlando, 46, Capt. G. R. Randolph, has been de spatched from Tunis by order of the Commander in-Chief Vice-Admiral Smart, to inquire into the circumstances which led to this extraordinary act on the part of the Spanish authorities. We learn from Gibraltar that the Marlborough, 121, Capt. C. Fel lows, arrived there on Oct. 22, and left there on following day for England. The surveying-vessel Firefly, 4, Lieut.-Commander Wilkinson, arrived yesterday morning from the Island of Favignana, on the south west coast of Sicily, which is now une dergoing an accurate survey. The Chanticleer, 17, Commander Risk, came in this morning from Syra cuse. The Revenge, 73 (bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral H. R. Yelverton, C. 8.), Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley, leaves on Sunday or Monday next for a cruise on the coasts of Sicily and Spain. The Admiral Superintendent at Malta, Rear-Admiral H. T. Austin, C. 8., is about to leave this island on promotion, consequent on the decease of Vice-Admi ral H. F. Greville, C. 8., and the vacancy, report says, will be filled up by Rears Admiral Kellett. The departure of Admiral Austin and his family will be very much regretted. Among the passengers who arrived from Marseilles on Saturday last were Major General W. J. Ridley, commanding the Ist Brigade in this garrison :—Sir Victor Houlton, K.G.M.G., Chief Secretary to Government—Col. Harding e, , commanding Ist battalion 22d Foot—and Capt. F. Aakwright. The following have also arrived :—Lieut. V. de Lancey, Lieut. Hudson Capt. Lutman, Capt. F. Eynaud, R.M.F.A. Lieut H. de Robeck, R.N., and Capt. Campbell, R.N. have left on leave of absence. A court martial was held this morning on board the Hibernia, presided over by Capt. Chamberlain, commanding her Ma jesty's ship Resistance, officiating Judge-Advocate Mr T. Boyle, R.N., to try assist.-engineer of the second class Allison, of her Majesty's ship Gibraltar, on a charge of drunkenness. He was sentenced to be deprived of two years' service, to be severely reprimanded, and to be dismissed his ship. Yesterday the half-yearly general muster of the Brigade of Foot Guards quartered at the west end of the metropolis took place on the Parade in St. James's Park, in front of the Horse Guards, the De puty Adjutant General officiating as Muster Master. The following troops assembled on the ground at 11 o'clock, viz. :—Granadier Guards, Ist Battalion, from Chelsea barracks, 600 strong ; 3d Battalion, Grenadier Guards, from Wellington barracks, 600 strong ; Coldstream Guards, Ist Battalion, from the same barracks, 600 strong; and the Scots Fusileer Guards, 2d Battalion, from St. George's barracks, 400 strong; nearly 200 of this battalion were on guard and were relieved by an equal number of the Coldstreams. Soon after 11 o'clock the muster commenced, the officers marching round in the same manner as the rank and file. There being 2,200 to answer to their names, the ceremony occupied more than two hours, and at the conclusion the battalions were marched to their respective quarters. The gunboat Ferret, 2, left Plymouth on Monday for Bristol, where she will be used as a training ship for boys. The Netherlands transport Rotterdam, Captain Adriaans, 116 days from Batavia, with 104 invalid troops, put into Plymouth Sound on Sunday, and when the wind changes will leave for Nieuwediep. General 'fodleben is at present at Governments house, Mount Wise, Davenport, on a visit to Major- General Hutchinson, the Commander of the Forces in the West. The following appointments were made on Mona day at the Admiralty :—Commander Pownoll W. Pellew, to the Royal Adelaide—Lieut. Frederick S. Vandermulan, to the Victoria—Lieut. R. M. Sperm ling, to the Asia—John G. T. Forbes, surgeon, to the Victoria—Owen J. Llewellen, surgeon, to the Magicienne—Frederick J. Fegen, paymaster, to be secretary to Vice-Admiral Smart—Ebenezer F. Nicholson, assist.-paymaster, supernumerary, to the Duncan—A, Marshall and J. M. Murphy, engi neers, to the Eipoir— G. Park, assist.aengineer, to the Espoir—and D. Ferguson, assist.-engineer, to the Donegal. The following appointments have been made in the Royal Naval Reserve :--To be Honorary Lieuts., Edward Cooper and Timothy Thornhill. 's I The excavations at Pompeii have just led to the discovery of a temple of Juno, on the flags of which were scattered about more than 200 skeletons. They are those of women and children who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, had hastened to the temple to seek refuge and implore the protection of the goddess. A NEW WAY OF PRINTING.—The description of a very rapid process for reproducing pencil drawings has been going the round of the Russian journals. The process will be particularly useful in campaigns, where it is often desirable to have a number of copies of a hasty pencil sketch, Seine time ago M. Villani-Villanis remarked that if a sheet paper on which a plan or any drawing or writing has been executed with pencil bo moistened will acic'ulated water, and afterwards inked, the pencil marks alone will take the ink, and the whole drawing,,may then be transferred to metal or stone. Capt. Sytenko, of the Rus sian Artillery, director of the Photographic Service of the Staff at St. Petersburg, has introduced very ingenious modi fications into this process, and contrived a portable mili :ary press, which, as already hinted, may be extremely use ful in campaigns. It does not take more than ten minutes to effect the transfer of the drawing upon a zinc plate or lithographic stone.—Galignani. [AnvEltrisEmENT.]-11olloway's Ointment and Pills, — Fur bad legs, bad breasts, and scorbutic or scrofulous sores this is a gentle specific. The grateful and earnest testi mony of thousand 3 who have experienced their unrivalled power over these complaints, and who have been raised from prostrate helplessness and a condition loathesome to themselves and others, render it quite unnecessary to en large in this place on its extraordinary virtues. The parts affected should be bathed with lukewarm water, and when the pores are thereby opened the ointment should be rubbed in at least twice a day all round the complaining parts. It then penetrates to th e seat of the disorder, and effects a thorough and permanent cure. These preparations are com posed of real balsams, as mild as they are efficacious. Opening Bridge. Yesterday afternoon another wide and much-needed bridge thoroughfare into the city was given to the public by the opening of this structure toll free for a period of six or twelve months at least, if not for perpetuity. The nego- :iations and arrangements which have at last brought about &is most desirable result have been for some long time past in progress. The shareholders were not reluctant to take almost say terms for a structure which had cost them very much, and which had paid them almost nothing at all, and seemed unlikely in the future to be more remunerative than during the past. They accordingly offered it to the Bridge.house Estate Committee far the small sum of £200,000, which, considering that it cost up to the time of its opening in 1819 £660,000, and is as good now as the day it was first used, was a very liberal offer, especially when we recollect that the mere approaches would, at the present day, cost as much as the whole work did 45 years ago. But the corporation were not unnaturally unwilling to enter on what must in any case be a costly purchase without some better proofs of the utility of the roadway than that which was furnished in theory, for the practical fact that during the greater part of the day London-bridge was virtually no thoroughfare at all was ignored by every one as beside the real question at issue. At last a compromise was come to, and the directors of the bridge company agreed to let the corporation have the public use of the bridge free of toll for a space of six months for the sum of £1,834, or for 12 months for £2,750, the bridge company under taking all ne cessary repairs of roads, &0., during either the 6 months or year. With this offer the corporation closed at once, and the result was the public opening of the bridge on those terms yesterday. Until now it has never been ct nee to either shareholders or public, and the bridge directors have done wisely in letting the public have the use of it toll free for a very small sum, and trusting, like Sam Slick with the clock, that when at the expiration of the time the article lent must either be returned or paid for, the public will have got ac • customed to its facilities, and be so convinced of its use, if not necessity, that the city will have no option but to pure chase it. Southwark.bridge is now the oldest of our metro politan bridges, except Vauxhall, which was opened in 1813, whereas Southw ark was not finished till more than six years later. The span of its magnificent centre arch is one of the largest known to exist, and was for years considered an en gineering marvel. The ribs of all the three arches are ar ranged as nearly as possible to the constructive features of a stone bridge—a new principle for a cast iron arch, but one which time has proved very successful. The segmental por tions of the arches, and the struts and cross braces, are kept secure by dovetail sockets and long iron wedges, driven in between the jants, so that through bolts were only used in building and till the wedges had been driven home. How these wedges will stand the jar of heavy city traffic, after long repose and comparative idleness. remains to be seen, though no doubt is entertained as to their perfect security. The spandrils of the arches are similarly fastened, and the roadway rests on the ribs, overlaid with iron slabs between. When the work was finished and the centerings removed scarcely any deflection could be discovered, though subse quent experiments made to ascertain the effect of contras- tion and expansion showed that the centre arch rose in sum mer from an inch to an inch anl a half higher than in win ter. The piers and abutments are of solid stone, founded upon timber piling carried below the bed of the river, and the masonry is tied throughout by vertical and horizontal bond stones so as to meet the thrust in all directions, The first stone of the bridge was laid by Admiral Lord Keith on the 23d May, 1813, and it was opened at midnight on the 24th March, 1819, as the clock of St. Paul's struck 12. Such is a rough sketch of the bridge which was yesterday given to the public, and which, we trust, will never be revoked from their free use. Shortly before 12 the Lord Mayor in state, accompanied by the Lady Mayoress, and attended by the Mace and Sword bearers, drove to the entrance of the bridge on the city side. The members of the Bridge-house Estate Committee also attended in their carriages. Among others present were Mr T. Webber, the chairman ; Mr Alderman J. C.Lawrence, Mr Alderman Phillip, Mr Alderman Salo mons, M.P., Mr Alderman Gibbons, Mr J. Kilday, Mr W. Tegg, Mr Brand, City Controller, 4563, They were received by the chairman and several directors of the bridge com • pany, including Mr F. H. Brandruni, Mr Carter, Mr W. Pott, &c. Upon the arrival of the Lord Mayor and the various civic officials on the city side of the bridge, the directors of the company advanced to meet them, and the chairman briefly than , ed his lordship for his kindness in opening the bridge. His lordship replied that it gave him great pleasure in assisting at the ceremony, as he felt sure that the bridge would when opened free of toll greatly faci litate the passage of traffic to and from the city, and so prove of essential benefit to the public. The temporary barrier was then removed, and the Lord Mayor and members of the Bridge-house Committee drove over the bridge to the Southwark side, and turned round, The barrier having in the meantime on that side also been removed, one of the company officials read the following notice : " Southwark-bridge is from this day open to the public free of toll for a period of 6 months, or until further orders. Opened by the chairman and directors of the Southwark bridge Company, in the presence of the Right lion. William Lawrence, the Lord Mayor,and the Chairman and members of the Honourable the Bridge-house Committee of the cor poration of London." The notice was again read after the removal of the barrier on the city side. The ttaffic during the rest of the day was chiefly confined to cabs, and not very great numbers of them; but with pedestrians it was pretty thickly thronged, and poor chil dren from the Borough and Southwark tested with their hoops the capabilities of the now thoroughfare in all direc tions. rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1864. influence. When such alterations are known to have taken place within 100 or even 50 years, scarcely any limit could be assigned to changes that might be effected in 1,000 years or more. Mr Crawturd, on the other hand, defended the opinions expressed by Mr Farrar, which he considered con firmed his views respecting the diversity of the human spe cies. The president adverted to the recent discoveries of the works of man mingled with the bones of extinct ani mals, as proving that human beings must have lived on the earth many thousands of years before the historical record, and that it was possible in that lapse of time for all the changes now observed in the races of man to have been effected. The meeting then adjourned. STATE OF TRADE, MANCHESTER, Nov. B.—Our market has been very firm to-day for all kinds of shipping yarns, and most spinners ask a slight advance, which has rather checked business. But for this we should have had a fair amount doing. In home-trade yarns we have had a very strong market, and though not much business has been effected prices are pretty much as on Frieay last. The yarn market generally closes rather firm, with a decided tendency to improvement. Spin ners seem pretty easy about prices, which they appear to think have touched the lowest point for some time to come. The cloth market his been rather quiet for some days past, but, owing to the scarcity of stocks, sellers have been able to do a moderate amount of business at last week's prices. In most cases sellers of cloth are asking for a further advance in prices, which has the effect of checking the desire to do business wherever it is pressed. Buyers of cloth and yarn are more cautious than they were eight or ten days ago. Many people think a more cheerful feeling would pervade this market if the pending difficulties talked of in London were settled. The failureof several manufacturers has been mentioned, and among them one at Preston and one at Rochdale. It is stated in the hon. secretary's report to the Relief Fund Committee that no less than 6S spinners and manufacturers were compelled to suspend payment during the month of October, and though most of these were in a small way it is estiraated in the aggregate that they employed 13,00) operatives. Messrs John Slagg and Co. report : "We have had but little business during the week, the general feeling of uncertainty and distrust having prevented buyers from operating. Prices, however, have remained firm, and to-day we have a more general inquiry at slightly advanced rates." LEEDS, 8 th.—T he woollen cloth markets to-day have been a shade better than those of this day se'nnight. The tone of the trade was a little more cheerful, and there was more business done. Good plain blacks, with meltons and tweeds, were the most saleable articles. Some inquiries were made for spring goods, but in such only a small business Was done. The manufacturers are rather curtailing their rate of production, late mercantile failures and the conse quent loss of capital, as well as the general aspect of the trade, being the principal causes for lessening the supply. Stocks are in a moderate compass, and prices keep steady, those of goods as well as those of wool. Some of the second hand raw materials, such as shoddy, &c., are:rather easier. Woollen rags, too, are not quite so clear as they were a short time ago. The flax trade is not so buoyant as we lately had to report it, and the demand for threads and yarns is rather flat. NOTTINGHAM, Bth.—At this Exchange-hall to-day there was a fair attendance. The demand, however, for lace yarns was slow, at the prices of last week. There was not much doing in hosiery yarns, and prices were without material change. Silks were disposed of at recent prices. The des mend for brown nets was very dull, but little or no altera tion in prices can be written. RogriDALE, 7th.—The attendance at market to-day was no better than it has been for several weeks past, and opera tions have been correspondingly small. Prices of some kinds of goods are lower, but cheapness did not seem to be a suffi cient incentive to the London and Manchester buyers to operate with that freedom which distinguishes them when the commercial tone is of a more buoyant character. The demand for flannel in the warehouses has this week been slack, and manufacturers have such difficulty in obtaining orders at remunerative prices, that most have resolved to begin a system of running short time. The business done here n wool is so small that the only remark to be made about s with reference to price, which seems to be getting :her for all kinds, though sales very rarely take place. Railway and Other Companies, SEVENOAR S, MAIDSTONE, AND TUNBRIDGE. A special meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Victoria Station, Pimlico, Lord Sondes in the chair. Mr HOLnOYD said the company required additional capital, to the extent of about 100,000, for the purpose of thoroughly completing the through double line to Seven oaks, for constructing a joint station near the junction with the South-Eastern Railway, and also for paying their pro portion of the cost of other works. The sum of £75,000 had been previously raised, bearing a 6 per cent preference interest; and the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, in consideration of the Sevenoaks Company comlleting the junction with the South-Eascern and doubling the line, had agreed to guarantee 5 per cent on debenture and preference stock to the amount of £t75,000. That was a 5 per cent guarantee only. It had therefore become necesA sary to convert the 6 per cent preference into a 5 pet cent preference. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, resolutions were passed authorising the conversion of the 6 per cent into a 5 per cent preference stock, the creation of £lOO,OOO 5 per cent preference stock, and the borrowing in respect thereof of £33,000 on mortgage. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceed ings. BRYNMAWR AND PONTPOOL. It is proposed to construct a line of railway from Bryn mawr to a junction with the Monmouthshire and West Midland Railway at Pontypool. The object of the promo ters is to connect the iron and other works between Bryn mawr and Pontypool with the London and Worth Western and Great Western by a more direct route than exists at present. LEEDS, NORTH YORKSHIRE, AND DURHAM. This, it appears, is to be the title of the new project for forming a competing line to the North and to Scarborough against the North-Eastern to a certain extent. The project is about 100 miles in length, and the cost is estimated at £1,00,000. The landowners on the route, it is stated, are all in favour of the line, and Lord Faversham is willing that they should take no less than 25 miles of his land. The survey from the London and North Western, Hudders field branch, to West Hartlepool, is completed, and the length from Helmsley to Pickering is the same, and the remaining few miles to Scarborough will be done this week. The towns on the route are all moving to petition in favour of the scheme, and Borobridge is asking for a branch. Atroctious Murder, Yesterday afternoon at half-past 1 o'clock, the headless body of a man was found in the reeds on the north bank of the reaches of the river marshes at Silvertown, between Blackwell and North Woolwich, one of the most lonely spots in the neighbourhood. The body which was discovered by a boy and a man out shooting, is believed to show from un mistakable marks that the deceased was the victim of a murder. ....._____. A stretcher was obtained as soon as possible from the Victoria Docks, hard by, upon which the body was con- veyed forthwith to the Graving Dock Arms, where a great crowd of persons had assembled. The body was there placed upon a litter in the stables, and upon inspection it appears to have been that of a young foreigner of between 20 and 25 years of age, and of the middle rank of life. It was clothed in good black trousers, hessian boots, and socks. The buttons on the trousers bore upon them the mark of I , G. Grapel, Hamburg." The shirt, which was somewhat worn, bore the initials " 0 8., 6." There were no braces or drawers. Tho body from the abdomen upwards was per fectly bare, the right arm resting on the breast. All the fingers had been eaten away by the water rats. The last shoulder.bone also bore indications of the gnawing of the water rats, but in all other respects there were no indications whatever of decomposition or decay. The body seemed not to have cccupied the spot in which it was found more than 20 or 30 hours. The mud upon the boots, moreover, was quite moist, and to all appearance the corps was that of a roan who had only ceased to breathe for a day or two. Search dur ing the day was assiduously made, but ineffectually for the head of the murdered man, which it is supposed was sent adrift down the river. The Thames police were on the look out all day, but without making any discovery either of the head or of the upper dress of the murdered man. The trunk of the body where the head was dissevered presents a most ghastly appearance. The first blow, either with a hatchet or other sharp instrument, failed to accomplish its intended effect, leaving only a gash upon the neck, but the second blow was apparently delivered so precisely that it severed the head from the trunk with the cleanness of a guillotine. The height of the murdered man from measurement taken on the spot (minus the head) would appear to have been sft sin. The only property found upon his person was a farthing and a scrap of paper, the shred of a letter probably in the German language. The blood on the neck was quite fresh and new. A portion of clotted blood and brains was found in the immediate neighbourhood of the river, where the body was discovered, and this, with the rushes by which it was surrounded, were put together and preserved for the inquiry into all the circumstances to take place before Mr Lewis, the coroner for Essex. Various conjectures, as on all such occasions, are afloat as to who was the murdered man, and how he came by hie death. One supposition is that he was a foreign seafaring man recently arrived by one of the Hamburg v ssels at Victoria Docks, that he attended a pigeon shooting match held in the neighbourhood a few days ago with notes and cash in his pocket, and that he was drugged. lured away, and despoiled of all he had. Another rumour is that he is a German employed in the district, and that he fell a sacrifice to some quarrel with others among whom he lived. Up to 9 o'clock last night several persons visited the Graving Dock Arms, in order to identify the body, but being divested of its head there was of course the utmost difficulty in any identification. In the meantime the most diligent investigation is being prosecuted into the mysterious affair by Superintendent Howie and Sergeant Nightingale, of the K division of police, and other officers, I who conceive they have a clue to the discovery of the crime. ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Yesterday evening the members of this society resumed their ordinarypresent, mee ti n gs at their rooms in St. Martin's-place —the M r Lubbock, in the chai r . id Mr T. Wnrowr, one of the hon, secretaries, read a brief report of the ethnological proceedings in section E of the British Association a t Bath. The papers read there were very numerous, an d the president stated that they had ex cited much atte n tion. Some skulls were exhibited, sent by Mr P, Egerton, of the Bengal Civil Scrvice, which had b een excava t e d i n the province of Spiti, in Chinese Thibet, and Mr Markie, exhi bited a series of flint instruments collected from the gravel drift of Bedford, one of which was of unusually large size. A note from Count Marhall, of Vienna, was read, giving an account of some works of art and some human bones found near what were supposed to have been ancient lake dwell ings, and it was stated that explorations ace now being made in the lakes of Southern Austriaand Hungary for the f ur ther discovery of remains of the inhabitants in lacustrine habitations. The first paper read was " an acco un t o f some rude tribes, the supposed aborigines of South ern India," by Dr Shortt. Several tribes were described, including the Yenadies, the Villers, the Irvolers, and the Dombers. The on the the Coromandel coast; the outski r t s o f every v illage in Y fiV t h ris e iti e d ros i f s attrrhiecetteoerboieunnfhodaubndt outskirts of the village of Negala chiefly by gathering h erbs and medicinal drugs, which they ; and the I rvo l e rs reside for theb th ar e te na r e w st it p h art on theother people pooram. The people are all i n the rudest possible sta te, and nearly resemble ea ch other in ge nera l a pp ea rance and character. They eat a ll kinds of fo o d, w ith the exception of the cow. The Dombers are ac ro b a t s; th e y are to be found in almost every district, and are reeogn i se d as the Domber caste all over Southern India. These tribes have , no knowledge where they came from, and have no history. Most of them speak the Teloogoo language, with various corruptions. Mr CRINSTIIRD thought these tribes had no claim to be considered the aborigines of India. They were merely poor Hindoos of the lowest caste, and were the class of people formerly called Gentoos, from the word Gentil or Gentile. Sir CHARLES NICHOLSON regretted more attention had not been paid by Dr Shortt to the language of these tribes, for language was now recognised as the best test of dis tinction of race. He inclined to the opinion that they were the aborigines of India, and he thought they exhibited de cided marks of the Mongolian type. Some further discussion took place on the subject, in which Mr Craufurd dissented altogether from Sir C. Nicholson's opinion, and observed that if these tribes were of Mongolian origin they would be yellow, and not black. Another paper " On fixity of type" was read by the Rev F. W. FARRAR. The object of the paper was to show that the races of man under all forms have from the earliest dawn maintained an absolute an unalterable fixity, not changed by climate or circumstances. He contended that, so far as is known, there is no single race of pure blood which, when traced back to its earliest origin, does not present the same traits it now exhibits. Mr Farrar proceeded to support this opinion by numerous illustrations. He showed that darkness of colour was not produced by a tropical climate, and that white and black people live in the same latitudes and beside each other. Ho adverted to several supposed instances of change, such as black Jews and black Portuguese, but he maintained that those anomalies were produced by mixture of race, He adduced the fixity of type in negroes, gipsies, and Jews under all circumstances and in all climates as examples, and he stated, in confirmation of his argument, that in the oldest Egyptian monuments, Jews, Arabs, negroes, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Europeans, were do• pitted with a fidelity as to colour and features hardly to be surpassed by a modern artist. Mr PHILLIPS, R.A., exhibited a series of Eketches and paintings of various persons in Egypt, Assyria, and Greece, exhibiting their characteristic differences. One portrait of a modern Copt was especially pointed out as exhibing the exact features of an ancient Egyptian as seen in the monuments in the British Museum; and to show the resemblance more strongly a head-dress similar to that worn by the ancient Egyptians was thrown over it. A very animated discussion took place on the paper, in which Mr Crawfurd, Sir C. Nicholson, Mr Luke Bufke, Mr Galtos, and the president took part. Sir C. Nicholson differed from the author of the paper, and alluded to the marked changes which have taken place within the last 100 years in the external character of the original English settlers in North America. He believed that there were undoubted instances of black Jews, and he contended that change of climate and of circumstances prodnee a decided SPIRIT OF T TemEs.—The reception of MM. Berryer and Des merest by the Bar of England yesterday evening was a brilliant success, if the success of such hospi tality is to be measured either by the numbers and dignity of the company, or by the hearty cordiality of the welcome. Never, perhaps, was the ancient hall of the Middle Terrple the scene of a more im pressive spectacle, and never certainly was there such a muster of the English Bench and Bar to do honour to a distinguished foreigner. The object of all this admiration has no more connection with this country than any other eminent Frenchman, and owes his great popularity among us entirely to his own personal merit. He is not merely a successful French advocate; he is a man who, through evil re port and good report, has maintained his professional and political integrity equally untarnished for more than half a century. Such a career must ever and everywhere be rare. The combination of ability, industry, physical strength and good fortune, which can alone enable e man to win and retain the lead of the legal profession, is given to very few, and fewer still are found to unite these qualities with aptitude for the duties of the Senate. Our own Erskine, to whom Lord Brougham happily compared M. Berryer, was quite as much his inferior in a deliberative assembly as he was probably his su perior in forensic skill. Lord Brougham himself gained a higher reputation in the House of Come mons than any lawyer of modern times, but even Lord Brougham's powers and patriotism were not tested by so long and various an experience as M. Berryer's. When the English barrister attains a certain position, he is almost sure to be trans. ferred to the Bench or the Woolsack; but in France the Bar owns nothing superior to itself. It would be an insult to offer M. Berryer a judgeship, and at an age when most men are unequal even to judicial labours he continues to practise as an advocate. To say, then, that he is the most illustrious advocate in Europe is not to dispa rage the great ornaments of our own Bar, for there is scarcely one of them, past or present, whose pro fessional life has extended over the same period of time. It was natural that on such an occasion, and in such an assembly, the independence of the Bar should be the favourite theme of all the speakers. No one touched this subject more forcibly than Mr. Gladstone, who testified that the privileges of this order were the one safeguard of liberty which the despotic Government of Naples was compelled to respect. It is difficult for Eng lishmen, or at least for our own generation of Englishmen, to appreciate the importance attached in evil times to freedom of speech in courts of justice. To us the functions of counsel in check ing arbitrary power appear so entirely subordi nate to those of Parliament and the Press, that we are at a loss to realise a state of things in which popular rights should be in the sole keeping of law yers. We need not look far backwards or around us for a corrective of these notions. The history of our own country during the reign of George 111., and the history of France during the whole of M. Bar ryer's lifetime, is enough to show that where Par liaments are composed of placeholders and the Press is under official control, the Bar is the one perma nent force capable of offering an effective resistance to the prerogative. The Attorney-General wisely coupled these three institutions together, but M. Berryer expressed his regret last night, as he has so often expressed it before French tribunals, that only the last flourishes .in his own country. In his famous defence of Count Mon ta lembert the same sentiment recurs again and again, and we alternately wonder at the intolerance of opinion manifested in the very fact of the prose cution and the latitude of political comment allowed in the defence. The truth is that the habits and traditions of a great and united profession are more stubborn opponents than the aspirations of a people. It is often easier to overawe insurgent multitudes than a compact body of lawyers, who depend on the confidence of the public, and cannot be set at de fiance without avowing principles destructive to society. There is another sentiment, however, which found expression last night in the weleome accorded to the acknowledged leader and the elected botonnier of the French bar. It was the convictien that more intimate relations ought to exist between French and English jurists. Con sidering how much we have to learn from foreign systems of law, it is marvellous how little we study them, and how few of the great French works on jurisprudence have been translated in our language. Something has been done by the legal department of the Social Science Association in bringing mem. bers of the two Bars together, and if we remember right, M. Desmareet, who says that a closer inter• course between the two has always been with him a cherished idea, personally took part in one of these meetings. It is gratifying to know, on his autho rity, that the invitation from the English Bar to himself was accepted by his brethren in the spirit which prompted it—as a complivaent to their order and as an earnest of future communication, This kind of alliance has long subsisted between men of science, and, in a less degree, between literary men, belonging to different nations. Free trade has enormously developed the community of inte rest which must always be felt by merchants all over the world. Why should not a corresponding exchange of ideas take place between the learned professions in England and France? Na re as•tional prejudices, if they are ever reasonable, a suredly out of place here, for civilisation is the property of no race or country. It is morally cer tain that the policy of isolation, borrowed from times whee hostility was the normal attitude of nations towards each other, has materially retarded the pro gress of arts and inventions. Even now the methods of French education are known to very few of our educationists, and the confessed superiority of their mathematical textbooks, for instance, has not yet led to a thorough reform of our own. It is time that these barriers of thought should be broken down so far as possible, and we could not begin with a more profitable subject for mutual improvement than law. The points of contrast are infinite in number, and, without any disrespect to our own system, we may safely say that they are not all of them in our own favour. If the visit of M. Berryer and his colleague should prove the beginning of such a rapprochement, it will be no unworthy supplement to the Commer cial Treaty. rOST.—The German Legal Protection Society have, it is said, agreed upon the terms of a memorial praying for a respite for Franz Muller, which is to be presented to the Home Secretary to-day. They have also published a statement purporting to give the result of their investigations in reference to this case. But it does not appear to have occurred to these gentlemen that it was practically by their own choice that Muller's trial took place when it did. There can be no douht that the Crown would have assented to the postponement of the trial, and, if further time was required to prepare the defence, it was the bounden duty of the prisoner's advisers to have applied to the Court in the usual manner, on affidavits, for its postponement. We believe we are correct in saying that such an application was ex., pected, and the German Legal Protect ion Societ y best know why it was not made. They must be aware that an explanation has been already indi rectly effered. It has heed suggested that had the hearing been adjourned the strong case for the pro secution might have been strengthened by the pro duction of witnesses from amongst the passengers who accompanied Muller to America. Be this, how ever, as it may, there is no getting rid of the fact that by going to trial they virtually declared that they had done all that could be done for the pri soner, and the wretched attempt to establish an alibi confirmed this impression. Of course they were to some extent guided by their solicitor, and he no doubt acted under the advice of counsel. But that only makes the conduct they are now pursuing the more extraordinary and indefensible. It would ape pear that they are not satisfied with the counsel they retained. They complain that his cross-exami nation of the witnesses for the prosecution was not as effective as it might have been, and that he did not call witnesses for the defence whose evidence they desired to have taken. It is easy to find fault after the event, but the truth is, we apprehend, that the counsel felt he had no case; and if the statements now published were briefed to him, it is not diffi cult to understand the opinion be formed of them. Still, the trial might have been postponed, and the arrangements for the defence could then have been changed, if that was thought desirable. But to publish what purports to be a defence of Muller, after his trial and conviction, and when the alleges tions it contains cannot be tested by cross-exami nation, manifests an intention to interfere with the administration of justice which we regret to have to notice. Dismissing what can only be described as the sensational portion of this statement with the single observation that its publication is, under the circumstances, almost offensive, the story that is told about the hat, which was proved beyond all reasonable doubt to have been made for Mr Briggs, and cut down to remove his name, is not only in• consistent with the evidence for the prosecution, but totaliy at variance with the theory of the defence, which was that Muller bought this hat in the second-hand trade. A number of old hats were produced to eupport the supposition, and LOW it is affirmed that the hat in question was purchased at the shop of the maker. But there is no explana tion of the cutting down, and it was certainly not bought at the shop of a first class hatter, and at the price stated, in the condition in which it was found in the possession of Muller. With regard to the watch and chain, it is pretended that Muller bought them of a pedlar at the docks on the morning of the Monday after the murder; that he exchanged the chain within two hours after its purchase; and that he made the bargain with the pedlar thinking that he might realise a profit upon the articles, and JOURNALS. wow. M l° be so enabled to redeem his own watch and 0 which were in pledge. But, although presse; money, Muller never dealt with Mr 13rifel watch ; and while the pedlar is Eni°ll6lo described—so particularly, indeed, as t e ; etti the description incredible—he is not foun'l t o it does not appear that the police were co nicated with on the subject, as, i f the C. was really bona fide, they clearly ought to of been. So far, then, there is nothit% ue e in the shape of evidence to exonerate .IYle imp nor have his over-zealous friends been able tn si o peach the credit of the witnesses for the proseen,;lo/ [hey state that the cabman counted on reeel.„ the reward, that he owed Muller a small lip money, and !esinuate that he was in p e cuniarY :o iot culties and did not stand very wel in the 0 1 3 `. 4 1 of his neighbours. Still, the case did no t der ty on this man's testimony, and the counsel for Wool fence must have perceived that, even if 11 ° c f have been broken down, the damning proof e' fiee prisoners guilt would have remained intact. of cabman was chiefly useful in discovering murderer in putting the police on his tra ck ; o when Muller was taken, the watch and hst,idne r s tr fled as the property of Mr. Briggs made it let" 101, bent upon him to show that he cam e by honestly. Tnis he failed to do ; • an d while' it respect to the hat, the defence set up o thee!i opposed to the statement we have been con,ecor the explanation with reference to the watch i s s ue. tradicted by the fact that Muller took it to Ateor and discredited by the mysterious absence of bard son son who, if he had been photographed, ul have been more easily recognised. Muller's g eti ee io good conduct is also pleaded. But, as no as to character were called,we are without the? of ascertaining with legal certainty how soner had conducted himself. Assuming, 10 " - 0 0 that he was neither better nor worse than A t commonly are, it does not at all follow that he D O incapable of committing the crime of which hetoo been convicted. On the contrary , the I°6o of crime shows that the greatest criminal° 11 frequently been esteemed and respected lege circles in which they moved ; and moreover' eel deuce. of good c_arauter • can only weigh 1 ° 1 %4 of doubt, and in this case the fact s were 1;00- orable. Indeed, when these gentlemen t iel to reflect on the statements put forth in 81 00 names, they will, we apprehend , be theo„ i i satisfied that there is no ground for reopen7ll- inquiry which they consented shoul d be elose;fe the verdict of the jury , and no reason wbateeept mitigating the sentence of the law. W e e thought it right to examine the materials tot which the memorial to the Home Secretary 109061 drawn up, and, having shown that they ar e , 14 „ less as against the evidence of Muller's guilt they they are irreconcilable with any theori n i c i nno cence, and that they have been kept htelt the time for their investigation has g one by, `;010 bound to express our firm conviction of th e J , , j o of the decision which has been carefully arriceot It only remains to add, that in mercy to 0 ,0 1 vict all this idle and inopportune agitation 019 be repressed at once. Huma nit y and Chroti feeling require that the few days which Moll live should be spent by him in seeking th e 00 0 mercy. That is the only hope which can be ~fe Mined. and if, as there is too much reason iu st I the miserable man has been led to think 111 0, 1 friends would petition the Crown in his beheoll trust they will see the propriety of ineteedi and earnestly imploring him to rely solely co pii reservedly upon the merits of a higher intern 14°, 1 '} COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL —T UESDAY. d ; There was a rather thin attendance o f town ant e 00 millers and dealers at market to - day , a nd the bil at was of a retail character. Wheat a nd flour ect, brought full prices. Oato and oatmeal made 16 ;1, with a slow trade. Indian corn in moderate r0:111 other articles unchanged. LEEDS—TUESDAY. tiO ' l The arrivals of English grain at our market do were moderate, and the demand for wheat 0 :„ 0 6 not brisk, millers having to purchase at prevlcc;tir Fine barley about the same as last week; 00°, 13 . 4 , A fully is lower. Beans and oats were easie r to 0'1,49' Averages—Nov. 7—Wheat 39s 40 r/ —Oats . 2ls 6 i d / --—Beans 38311'' / —Peas .33s 9, A 4 / A —Barley 32 s """ Od --—Rye .. --- MELTON MOWBRAY—TuBspA4%,O The following were the currencies :—NeW w,w36 42s Od to 46s Od ; new red, 38s Od to 43s p er b e ans, 37s to 43s for old; new sorts, 35s to Si' ' e r barley, 32s to 34 s for malting , and 28s to SO l e o. OM gr i n ding; new oats, 21s to 24s Od per 24 51°1 to 28s. SHEFFIELD—TuEsDAI. t A ptll ll ° o l l The market was moderately attended, bli All and factors still bought slowly , a nd .rsdo Was " rates. Flour mainta ned previou. P 175 0 t° White 2 2 ,bus Tels 15s 00 Red wheat, par load of 3 iwporial , 15s Oi t ° New red ll6s O t t o ° New white 22 22 15s 6d " Beans 29 ff 40s Od t° er qr nA to Grinding barley, per qr 285 v - Malting ditto, ~ 32 5 ' ‘ , 2 0 Oats Flour,' 22s tit , is 5d to is 10d per 14 lb. CORK—MONDA.Y. The following were the quotations this moro„,,flog wheat, 7s 6d to Ss 3d ; white, 8s Od to 9s Od , 60 6d to 7s 6d ; oats, 5s 8d to 6s 10d ; black d0.,- 6a 0; bere, —s Od. Foreign Mail Packet lAA MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via S ou th ana pton..... , via Marseilles ....... Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. ..... ' Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Plcle l ls. China, Penang, and Singapore, via via SouthauiP Marseilles Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton ............... India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via SouthamPt° (Bombay), via Southampton Marseilles• ... .. via Marseilles ...... Portugal.... ............................ Nialta, Egypt, and Aden, via S ou th am pton .• ... via Marseilles ..... Newfoundland ............................... : I„fi Oporto And Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. ' . , 1 by U.S. packetl:;t„l'4 by Canadian Pa .. „ . c ill All parts of West Indies, including Chili, re' California. and British Columbia. ........... 4 6S'v A MASKED ROBBER AT HULL STO* . 0 CEEDlNGS.—Considerable excitement en ins created in Hull by a report that on every the past week a man, assuming on each ee cil 0 00) ferent disguise, but always having his features,led concealed by a black mask, had entered sev er lli the district of Wincolmlee, and having first 'ciered inmates by threats of personal violence, Pitinl3 T a o of whatever he took a particular fancy to. 1100 night a man, named Field, reported that „ d $ 1 ,4 entered his house during his absence, having ""tio'A a black mask. Mrs Field, who was sewing 113 ,. 6 - 03 at the time, on seeing the man enter bee'e frightened. He threatened that if she 3 1 6 ,y1 t7 slightest attempt at resistance or alarm be ' lc ; 0 08 ; pan of water that was boiling on the fire in be fill mysterious being then searched the room,su d fr A a purse containing 2 2 5. he decamped. On ""iff, night a man, similarly attired, entered a bons street, street, Hull, the sole occupant of which was 811 Or too feeble to resist him. Having possessed 4s. the thiefleft the house. Information in all was given to the police, but the descriptioo voe man was so vague and unreliable, owing to ale.iie, of his face by the mask, that it is feare d he 111— tection. Births. , ffiti f i LIITYENS.—On the 7th inst., the wife of C . - ,r of a son. , MAISSFIELD.—On the 4th inst , at Torqua y' Lieut.-Col. Manbfield, of a son. ee tl P O . HARA,—On the Gth inst., at Annag hniore , ' Ireland, the wife of C. W. O'Hara, °6l. daughter. Marriages. t ild BUCKLEY—MTARTHY.—On the Ist inst.,' 1, - ppod• Church of St. Peter's, Hatton-garden, ')(3-teoitttr 08, South-street, Thurloe-square, e BrotoP th q • i rine, only daughter of Mr. James r' Isil'C lif " -' 1 street, Northampton-square. aeon op POPE—FILANCICE.—On the Bth inst., at St. 13 ort - o over-square, William Pope , Esq., of 25 ' - "nne , Eatonesquare, to Auguste Joscpine Ca id s of Charles Franeke , E-q., of Bamberg, "" i Deaths. al oft I BAILEE —On the sth inst. , Colonel On..sloil Artillery, aged 68. t oe, CHURCH.—On the Bth inst., at SPifa l44 0 0 Church, Esq., solicitor, aged 83. ills , $ d JAMES.—On the 7th inst., at Acacia Vi"-,;:redjoii suddenly, Francis Herbert James, Esq ; :g 7 i l MONTRESSOII, — On the 7th inst., at 11 06 " ' 0 1 Montressor. 0 VIGNOLES —On the sth inst , Cecil lirl' mender Vignoles, R.N. Crs /ie YOUNG.—On the sth inst., at Highbury wife of Wm. Young, Esq, aged 88. TOO LINGFORD.—On the 7th inst., at 1 % 66. Wandsworth-road, Mr. Langford, age" - BP. London : Printd and Prbitshecl by WILS2):4; 01a of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tar Strand, in the Precinct of the 531,0P0 Middlesex.—Wedliesday, Nove l3ll)6 9' I